Jason Read
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Ringoes, New Jersey, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jason Read rowed in the bow seat in the 2004 Summer Olympics Gold medal-winning U.S. Men's Rowing Team Eight that set an Olympic record (5:19.85) in the heat on August 15, 2004.
He attended the Hun School of Princeton, where he took up rowing, continuing the sport at Temple University. As a volunteer with the Amwell Valley – Ringoes Rescue Squad in Ringoes, he was among those who responded to the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Read was a member of the U.S. rowing team for the 2008 Summer Olympics.